The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 91

“Thereupon the spectre told me exactly where the treasure lay, and how to find it.

Who acts: spectre, treasure · What happens: tell, lie, find · To what, where: apparition, spectre · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spectre, treasure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
2	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spectre	det
4	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 where	advmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 lay	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 treasure	det
10	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 find	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 find	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lay	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the spectre		apparition	thereupon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	lie in a quote	past	the treasure				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find in a quote	to-infinitive	the treasure not said here	spectre			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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